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Category: Philadelphia Education Challenge

High School HeroesX awarded a grand prize of 1400 dollars to the winners of our inaugural challenge– narrowing the education gap in Philadelphia. The winning team, from Penn Charter, used the money to expand their 21st century technology curriculum by purchasing LittleBits Stream PD. They have also expanded […]

Original post Written by the Penn Charter School A group of six Penn Charter students won the Philadelphia Education Challenge High School HeroesX (HSHX) Philadelphia prize for the STEM coding and computer literacy curriculum they developed for third and fourth graders at the Gesu School’s summer school. In […]

The final week HSHX spent with The Gesu School this summer culminated in tying together many of the elements we had been working on with the students all summer. On Monday, July 20th, Penn Charter spent their final day focusing on an overlooked part of technology : typing […]

Though the 2015 summer portion of our education challenge is complete, HSHX is still planning on expanding its efforts come fall to effect more positive change in the education sector, and help more students learn the tools they need to succeed in higher education and in life. To do so, we […]

Due to travel, the third week at Gesu was limited to one visit by Penn Charter. Despite technological difficulties, the day was far from over as the computer literacy curriculum turned into a fun day of spelling games that were recommended by the Gesu students. The first game […]

The second week during which High School HeroesX worked with The Gesu School saw similarly encouraging signs as the first. The week started with Penn Charter running the second week of their coding/computer literacy curriculum. Students continued to use the MIT program Scratch, this time learning how to: rotate […]

The past week was the first week in which High School HeroesX worked with The Gesu School in North Philadelphia. Before describing the exciting work done between HSHX chapter schools and Gesu students, we want to provide a bit of background on Gesu. Realizing that it would be […]

High School HeroesX is excited to announce the addition of its third Advisory Board member, Dylan Gambardella. Dylan, a resident of Westchester, New York, graduated as the Valedictorian of Hendrick Hudson High School before moving on to attend Duke University, where he is currently a sophomore. A Forbes’ […]

High School HeroesX is thrilled to announce the first member of its advisory board: Ms. Lauren Fine, a Philadelphia resident and the Co-founder and Co-Executive Director at Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project (YSRP). A graduate of Yale University and Duke Law School, as well as an Echoing Green […]

Over the month of January, students participating in the High School HeroesX Philadelphia challenge have furthered their research on the roots of education inequality and possible solutions that can be implemented to help solve the problem. Students watched Vice News’ documentary “Last Chance High”, which chronicles one of the […]